Sad, that it is not running on macOS. For the last few years I used Gimp, but I have a feeling that Gimp is getting more and more unintuitive nowadays (if it ever was intuitive).<p>Recently I needed to do some ad-hoc drawings and I found myself using one of these online paint clones. They are not as comfy as desktop apps but they are doing the job good enough.<p>I would really like to see Paint.NET running on macOS. I think MS efforts for making .NET cross platforms are somehow half-assed. They ported just so much to run web apps and REST services, but totally gave up on GUI stuff. Maybe it's their strategy to lock up devs to windows machines, as there are many tools like ILSpy that .NET devs often use.<p>The community answer, the last time I checked, was AvaloniaUI (<a href="https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia</a>) which is cross platform port of WPF (at least XAML based). ILSpy is already ported to it (<a href="https://github.com/icsharpcode/AvaloniaILSpy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/icsharpcode/AvaloniaILSpy</a>) but it runs poorly on Linux & mac (I have experienced random crashes and other UI problems). I hope the project will do well and within a year or two we will also see a port of Paint.NET to it.
I use Paint.NET for a lot of quick tasks at work, and I have just begun playing with scripting it. It loads quickly, has nicer tools than just MS Paint, and it's getting better each year. I used to play with GIMP and Script-Fu, because I love Scheme and Script-Fu was fun and nicely integrated. The .NET platform is really making a lot of strides this year. Let's see how my C# compares to my Scheme-Fu!
I love Paint.NET, but their distribution system is super scummy. I tried to share it with some co-workers and realized you can't just give non-technical people a link to the project site or they are extremely likely to end up downloading some kind of spyware.
Interestingly, Paint.NET now uses a self-contained .NET 5 packaging. This means on a fully updated Windows 8.1, 10, or 11, it will work out of the box. On Windows 7 SP1, you'll need to manually download and install Platform Update for Windows 7 to get it working. It won't work on Windows 8.0 or earlier than 7 SP1 (7 SP0, Vista, etc).
While historically quite useful, I swapped to Photopea.com and haven’t looked back. It continues to amaze me how well it works and how broad its feature set is.
love paint.net. so many advanced features for a “basic” app. but why is rotating still unintuitive? is there a trick that i’ve missed or using the layers menu still the way?
My favorite app to make pixel art. Unfortunately last time I tried it, it wouldn't run through Wine. I've never found an alternative on Linux that I liked as much.
Paint.NET is non-free software ... for an extremely petty reason.<p>The reason? Someone new to programming changed the author in the about box and published it on their website.<p>Well, the author sure showed those terrible plagiarizers by making the project non-free. (Meanwhile, it is as easy as ever to modify .NET applications without source access - see e.g. the numerous mods for Unity games.)
For those who yearn for simpler times:<p><a href="https://github.com/1j01/jspaint" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/1j01/jspaint</a><p><a href="https://jspaint.app/" rel="nofollow">https://jspaint.app/</a>
200mb and 300 DLLs<p>What's up with windows desktop app development? is it really THAT bad?<p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/pkPSq7k.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/pkPSq7k.png</a>